The Planets (1999)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 8 episodes
- Rated
- TV-G
- Rating
- 8.1 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This BBC documentary series explains the planets of our solar system and how they formed. It uses old film footage from American and Russian space missions along with computer animations. Experts and space explorers talk about the discovery of planets.
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What happens
The Planets is a documentary miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999. The series was remastered in 2004. It documents the Solar System and its nature, formation, and discovery by humans during the Space Age. The series of eight episodes includes a substantial amount of archival footage from both the United States and Soviet space programs. It also depicts the Solar System through computer graphics. There were a total of eight episodes produced for the series. The series featured appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, and was narrated by Samuel West in the original 1999 edition, and Mark Halliley in the 2004 remastered edition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Our Planet - Behind the Scenes (2019)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.